Chapter 9

“First Loves and Jam Sessions”

“Scenes in the Key of Love”

One bright sunny afternoon after school, Fluttershy decided to visit Sweet Apple Acres. She wanted to see Macke-- uh-- Big Mac again, and give him a chance to ask her to the Fall Formal. She walked up to the farmhouse wondering if she should knock. Fluttershy really didn’t want to disturb Applebloom who should probably be doing her homework, or Granny Smith who would be resting after a day serving delicious meals at Canterlot High’s cafeteria. Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of light snoring.

She looked over at a nearby tree and saw Big Mac sleeping against it quietly taking in the cool afternoon air. He had worked hard all afternoon since getting home, it was nice to take a break once in awhile. Fluttershy just stared, a slightly dreamy smile forming on her face as she did. He looked so peaceful, sitting there, sleeping innocently. Oh she loved Macintosh from the moment she first saw him, but was always too shy and nervous to even say a word. It had been thanks to Rarity that she had even got the chance to speak with him and that was something for which she was grateful. She and Mac loved talking about animals, the farm, their friends and family. She only wished she could be brave enough to either tell him or show him how she truly felt.

“Ya gonna go over and give ‘im a kiss, sugarcube?” A voice said suddenly behind her.

“EEP!” Fluttershy yelped, and looked behind her to see Applejack standing there. “Oh, Applejack, you startled me.”

“Only cuz you were off in romance land thinkin’ of mah brother,” Aj teased, laughing a little as Fluttershy’s face turned crimson. “Jus’ sayin’ it’s obvious how ya feel for ‘im. Mac’s over tha moon fer ya too, y’know.”

“Sure as sugar. Ah doubt Ah have ta say this, but it’s kinda a sisterly obligation,” Applejack replied. “Don’ break his heart, y’hear?”

“Oh I would never think of doing such a thing.” Fluttershy implored. “But I couldn’t just go up and disturb his sleep like that. He might get mad at me, or hate me for doing it or…”

“Be too busy blubberin tah know which end is up because some pretty girl kissed him,” Aj pointed out. “Now get on over there.” She gave Fluttershy a little shove. Fluttershy gulped nervously, and began kneeling beside Mac.

Mac, while all this was going on, was off in dreamland. First knocking down apples with expert ease, followed by some running in some apple orchard. He then came to a sweet field of flowers finding Fluttershy of all people waiting for him. Mac gulped at the sight of her. In truth he himself had a massive crush on the demure young woman. But he was a boy of few words, and his own crippling shyness made it impossible for him to approach her.

But in this dream, it was okay, he was confident as ever. He walked to her, took her hand and danced in the flowers a little, before she slowly embraced him. He held her in his arms gently, gazed down into those beautiful aqua eyes of hers, and kissed her tenderly...odd, the kiss felt really...real?!

Big Mac’s eyes opened wide as he saw, Fluttershy kneeling beside him, her soft lips pressed against his. In all honesty it wasn’t a very deep kiss. In fact it was as hesitant and shy as the young woman who was giving it. However, this was the very boldest Fluttershy had ever been, and quite frankly it shocked her… Not that she wasn’t enjoying kissing him.

Big Mac almost wanted to let the kiss linger, part of him thought it was still a dream. But his heart pounding in his chest, the smell of Fluttershy’s perfume, it all dissipated whatever thoughts he had of it being a dream. When Fluttershy broke the kiss however, she found Mac not a sleep, but staring back at her with his own green eyes. “Shy...didja just…” He said nervously.

“Oh! M-mackey! I-I’m so sorry… I should have waited for you to wake up, and…” Fluttershy stuttered, blushing furiously.

“N-no Shy Ah was jus’ nappin’ and all and...why were ya kissin me?” He asked, his own face reddening.

“I-I’m sorry… Y-you were just sitting there, l-looking so sweet, and h-handsome, and… I w-wanted to k-kiss you, and Applejack said I-I should, s-so I did, and…” Fluttershy babbled, twisting a strand of hair in her fingers nervously.

“Shy, Ah didn’t, realize ya wanted to...have us do that…” Big Mac said, sitting up and nervously looking at her.

“I-it’s just that I… I really like you, Mackey… I-I like you a l-lot…” Fluttershy managed, unable to say the other ell-word just then.

“Me…? But Ah’m jus…” Big Mac said, looking away. “Ah...Fluttershy Ah...like ya a lot too...but Ah thought you were ‘fraid of me…”

“Oh n-no. I’m just… you know… really really shy…” Fluttershy murmured, blushing. “If it weren’t for Rarity, that one day, I’d have never gotten the courage to actually talk to you…”

“Tah be honest, Ah was really nervous too…” He admitted, blushing brightly. “Ah’m... painfully shy too…”

Fluttershy giggled. “I… I guess we have that in common,” she said with a sweet smile.

“Aw, gowan and kiss ‘er ya, big lug!” Applejack shouted from where she had been loading apples into the silo.

Big Mac and Fluttershy gazed at each other for a long time, their faces crimson at the closeness they had. Big Mac then stood up suddenly, offering his hand. Fluttershy took it and she was pulled to her feet. She was then suddenly swung into a dip and like something out of a romance novel, Big Mac moved down to kiss her right on the lips. Fluttershy gasped at the kiss, then closed her eyes, wrapping her arms around his neck a hand running through his mussed hair.

Fluttershy gazed back up at him a content sigh escaping her lips as she said: “Oh, Mackey…”

“Shy, um, there’s somethin’ Ah’ve been meanin tah ask ya. And Ah’d better take advantage of the fact that Ah’m suddenly feelin’ darn brave now,” Big Mac said, with a light chuckle.

“O-oh? What… what do you want to ask me?” Fluttershy asked, looking a bit apprehensive.

“Woudja kindly go to the Fall Formal with me? Ah’ve been wantin’ tah ask ya fer a long time…” Big Mac asked, nervously.

Fluttershy’s face suddenly grew bright as day, she hugged Big Mac tightly. “YES, Mackey, I’d love to go with you! Thank you so much!” She said happily. Big Mac was blushing brightly, trying not to let the fact that Fluttershy’s, ahem, endowments were pressed up against him now.

Applejack sighed at the pair of them. “Ain’t they jus adorable?” She asked.

“What’s goin on out ‘ere?” Granny Smith said, peeking her head out of the window.

“PROGRESS?!” Granny yelled suddenly. She then turned and yelled into the house. “Applebloom! Get mah shotgun!”

“Granny fer the last time ya ain’t holdin any shotgun weddin’s!!” Aj yelled, running inside to stop her granny from doing something rash.

“But, Applejack, we’s gotta get ‘er hitched afore she goes and changes ‘er mind!” Granny yelled back from somewhere inside the house. “Don’ wanna lose ‘er to some slick city feller!”
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That very same afternoon, Rainbow Dash was kicking the soccer ball around the field, taking the time between practices to work on her footwork. Never let it be said that Rainbow Dash didn’t take an opportunity for self improvement… Unless it involved reading, or her possibly reducing her ego. That would be just silly. Reading was for nerds and eggheads, and reducing her ego meant being less awesome. Or such was the wisdom of Rainbow Dash.

She casually kicked her ball towards the goal, only to have her worst nightmare stop it. Raiden stood there, his foot on ball, and smirking that stupid cocky grin he always wore.

“Well well, if it isn’t Rainbow Sexy Dash,” He said, keeping that cocky grin.

“Aww come on, babe, you can’t still be mad about the shower thing, it was just a joke,” He said defensively.

“The shower thing, the panty raid thing (you’re lucky my Dad didn’t kill you by the way), the lewd pictures in the email thing, the sexting thing… Need I go on?” Rainbow asked. “I’ve got plenty to be mad at you about.”

“Wow, I’ve really been busy with you….” Raiden said, whistling at his handiwork. “You should be flattered, most girls don’t get chased this often by the one and only Raiden Bolt. Rock star, rich kid, and heartthrob to girls everywhere, what more could you want? Most girls would give their right arms simply to talk to me.”

“What more could I want? How about for you to leave me alone, and go and chase your oh-so-adoring groupies! I’m not some brain-dead fan! I’m not just going to fall into your lap just because you want me to! I’ve got ambitions, I’ve got dreams, and I’ve got a sense of decency that you constantly offend with everything you do!” Rainbow retorted raging. “I want you to get it through that thick skull of yours that I’m NOT INTERESTED!”

“Yeeah you seem to be under a lot of stress.” He said, only half listening to what she said. “How’s about you and me spend some quality time together? Dinner? Movie? Backstage pass at one of my totally awesome concerts?”

“Raiden, I’m only under a lot of stress, because I have this thick-headed numbskull constantly chasing me, deluding himself that I’ll go out with him just because he’s some kind of big shot,” Rainbow replied, rolling her eyes.

“Huh, well that dude sounds totally awesome and you should totally go out with him,” Raiden said matter of factly.

“Yeah, no. Remember that sense of decency I mentioned earlier? It draws the line at going out with panty-raiding perverts,” Dash said walking up to him then kicking the ball out from under his foot.

Raiden fell when his balance was broken, right onto his face. He looked up at Rainbow as she went to pick up her ball. “Kinda sexy when you’re pissed actually…” Raiden said, somehow keeping that smirk.

“A sexy idiot,” He retorted. This earned him swift kick to the gonads, and Rainbow leaving him in the fetal position mourning his future heirs.

“Stupid idiot…” Rainbow grumbled, putting her ball in her backpack, mounting her motorcycle in the parking lot, and driving on home.
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Rainbow’s home was a small apartment in a less-than-affluent part of the neighborhood. It was tiny two-bedroom that they had moved to after Rainbow’s mother had passed away to save on money. White plastered walls with a minimum of decoration made up the living room, where old well-loved furniture was arranged around the king of the living room, the television. A half-wall topped with a bar separated the living room from the galley kitchen, and tiny eating area. Beyond that were the bedrooms for Rainbow and her father.

Rainbow stepped inside, sighing and yelling. “Dad! I’m home!” She said, taking off her boots and venturing into the apartment.

“Hey champ, how was your day?” Came a voice from the small kitchen area. There stood Prism Dash, Rainbow’s father. Let it never be said that Prism let age slow him down, as despite being quite older he still kept his athletic build and ruggedly handsome features. He smiled upon seeing his daughter come in.

“Was fine, until Raiden decided to try his ham-handed wooing again,” Rainbow said with a sigh. “He just can’t get that I’m not into him.”

“Eh, some guys just can’t take a hint.” Prism said. “I’m sure one of your punches to his gonads will tell him to back off. Course there’s always option B and I just kick his ass.”

“You’d think you scaring the piss out of him, when he tried that panty raid, would have done it,” Dash observed. “Guess he is just that dumb… Or likes pain… There’s a Twilight word for that, but I can’t think of it right now. Mass-o-something. A mass o’ stupid is what he is.”

“Yeah, but let’s try talking about something positive, heard that Fall Formal is coming up.” He then laughed a little. “I remember that, sooo many epic pranks.”

“Really? Who’d you prank?” Rainbow asked, sitting at the bar, loving her Dad’s stories about his exploits when he was younger.

“Oh, one time I swapped the record that was playing with a recording of Glory Sunset singing in the shower. She was so pissed she walked right outside, right into the bucket of water I placed. Then she saw me on the stage, ran over, and tripped the wire I put in, dumping all this old dishwater onto her dress. She would’ve tripped another wire if your mother hadn’t pushed her out of the way. Your mom was so mad she grabbed me by the collar, and shoved me into my own tripwire, dumping all this chocolate sauce on my head,” He said, taking great pride in describing his epic prank.

“Glory Sunset? You mean Sunset Shimmer’s Mom? Whoa! You totally pranked Shimmer’s Mom! Hmmmm… I should do a little somethin’ somethin’ for the stunt she pulled in breaking up me and my friends,” Rainbow mused.

“Yeah, but just try to have a good time okay champ? You only get a few Fall Formals in your life ya know.” Prism said. “Speaking of awesome experiences…” He said, and stepped away from the kitchen area. “So, turns out I got this awesome deal from a certain...music store…” He said with a grin.

“What? You can’t be serious! I thought I was going to have to start duct taping the old axe, but you got me a…” Rainbow asked, her eyes wide, and hopeful.

“No daughter of mine is going to rock the world with my old guitar...I figured you were old enough to have one of your own…” He said, pulling a guitar case out of the closet, he set it on the table, and opened it like a treasure chest in front of Rainbow. Inside was a blue electric guitar, slick, smooth with Rainbow’s personal emblem on the body.

Rainbow reached out and touched her emblem, then beamed at her dad, glomping him and hugging him fiercely. “You are the most awesome dad EVER!”

“Hey, only the best for my Rainbow…” Prism said, hugging his daughter just as tight. “Now why don’t you run off and give her a whirl?”

“Awww yeah!” Rainbow said closing the case, and picking it up. “Thanks, Dad. You’re the best.”
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The next day, Rainbow stepped into the older music room. This one was mostly used by band or choir members for small time practicing. For Rainbow though, it was a personal jam spot. She dragged in her guitar and personal amp, plugged it all in, and strummed her guitar a little to tune it. She then raised her pick, setting the amp to eleven...and began to play. She gleefully shredded her way through several riffs, happy to have her very own guitar, and not her father’s hand-me-down. This was sounding totally awesome!

“Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!” Rainbow began to chant, as she went into some power chords. ”As awesome as I wanna be! First you see me ridin’ on a sonic boom! Got my guitar shreddin’ up my latest tune! There’s nothin’ you can do to beat me! I’m so good you can’t defeat me!”

Raiden, who happened to be in the hallway, heard the sound and stopped. “Hey who’s shredding?” He said, stopping to look inside the music room at Rainbow going nuts on her guitar. “Oh, no way, babe, I’m the rockstar of this school!” He said, taking off and coming back with his own guitar.

”I’m awesome, take caution! Watch out for me, I’m awesome as I wanna be! Yeah, I’m awesome, take caution! Watch out for me, I’m awesome as I wanna be!” Dash sang triumphantly, as she still shredded on her guitar, enjoying it to the hilt.

Suddenly a second melody joined in, Raiden was busting out his own shreds on his black and yellow lightning bolt adorned guitar. He grinned as he played alongside her. “Girl, you ain't got what takes to be. As incredibly Awesome as me! You think you can run across this stage. Well let's see you break out of your cage!”

Rainbow glared at Raiden’s intrusion, then was determined to be even better than he was on guitar. She ramped up her playing, going into a sweet solo, before she began another verse.
”Step aside now, you’re just gettin’ in my way! I’ve got sick chops you could never hope to play! When it comes to makin’ music, I’m the ruler! You wish you could be twenty percent cooler!”

Raiden grinned and it wasn’t his cocky grin like usual, but it was the kind of grin from a master who was facing a challenge. He dived head first into it and added his own solo. “Girl you're new on this stage! I've been playing since diaper age! You got nothing on me and my skills! You should see how my music leaves everybody with chills! CUZ I’M AWESOME AS I WANNA BE!”

”I’m awesome, take caution! Watch out for me, I’m awesome as I wanna be! Yeah, I’m awesome, take caution! Watch out for me, I’m awesome as I wanna be!” Dash sang back, matching him lick for lick, and constantly trying to one-up him, as they continued to play. Suddenly her whole body started to glow blue, and a pair of pony-like ears appeared on her head.

Soon, the pair wound down their songs, their whole bodies sweating from the effort. Their frets were on fire for so long, the strings were steaming. Rainbow smirked at the look of utter shock on Raiden’s face, thinking she totally floored him.

But Raiden pointed at her, “Uh, babe first of all, totally badass fret fires, but...where’d those ears come from?”

“Ears… What the hell are you talking about, Raiden?” Rainbow asked, thinking it was yet another one of his ploys.

“Uh…” He said, pulling out his phone, and turning on the facecam, handing it to her.

“Wha!? Pony ears?! Are you freakin’ KIDDING me?!” Rainbow yelped, reaching up with one hand and feeling a furry blue ear. As she touched them however, they faded away before her eyes.

“That...was weird, but totally awesome, I didn’t know you could play like that babe…” Raiden said, smiling.

“Well there’s a lot you don’t know about me,” Rainbow said as she put up her guitar lovingly. “You’ve been too busy being a total pervert.”

“Still though, you got skills. I would love to have you and me on stage one of these days,” He said, for once in total sincerity.

“You.. you actually sound serious for a change,” Rainbow said sounding quite surprised. “You’d really like to have me in one of your concerts, jamming with you on stage?”

“Have to get exposure somehow right?” Raiden said with a shrug. “Well, till then I guess I can concede you were totally awesome, maybe a reward is in order….”

“Reward? What are you talking about, you jer-” Rainbow never got to finish that sentence...as Raiden suddenly ran up to her and kissed her right smack dab on the lips. He stepped away from the stunned Rainbow and grinned.

It took Rainbow a full minute to process what exactly just happened. But when she did, a fury like no other was unleashed….

“THAT JERK STOLE MY FIRST KISS!!!”
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Swarm sat in the spare room at Pinkie Pie’s home. Her parents seemed somewhat doubtful of him, at first, especially since he was a strange mute boy that their daughter had brought home. Pinkie sisters, Marble and Limestone, were still somewhat wary of him. Maud… just accepted him, and Pinkie’s story that the boy had been raised by a swarm of locusts. It was Maud’s calm acceptance of the boy, and she saying that he’d be good for Pinkie that brought Cloudy Quartz, and Igneous Rock around.

It was still a rather small spare bedroom, barely enough room for a bed, and a dresser, but it was far more privacy than Swarm had ever had in the hive. The whole place still seemed alien to him, even the concept of having a simple bed took him a minute to grasp.

“Now how am I going to teach you about humans?” Pinkie mused, pacing in the hallway outside of Swarm’s room. “Well, I don’t want cha to rot your brain cells from watching TV all day. That’s no way to learn about anything. Not even Reality TV is reality. What are you, anyway? You seem to be able to make yourself look like anybody.”

Pinkie brightened. “OH! I’ll be right back!” She scampered down the hall to her room, coming back with a notebook and pencil. She handed them to Swarm, beaming at him.

Swarm took them tentatively, and at first began scribbling to get the handle on writing in a human form. He started drawing a crude depiction of himself as a bug, then started drawing more and more of himself, until at least a dozen Swarms were depicted on the page.

“There’s a bunch of you, where you’re from, huh?” Pinkie said looking at the drawing. “Aw, are you lonely? Do you miss your family?”

“A hive? Were you like a bee?” Pinkie asked. “Only you aren’t getting nectar from flowers or anything. So what do you eat?”

Swarm looked a touch embarrassed, and pulled out a fresh sheet of paper. He drew a heart, showing it to Pinkie.

He shook his head again, and this time drew two stick figures under the heart. One was a boy, one was a girl, and the figures looked to be hugging and kissing one another. He drew a small arrow up to the heart, then a crude depiction of himself eating the heart.

“Aw… that looks like Privy and Twili… Wait… Heart from hugging and kissing… You eat love? How do you eat love?” Pinkie asked, tilting her head.

He tilts his head, then thinks for a moment, and then suddenly gets enveloped with green fire, the skinny readhead was transformed into an absolute hunk.

Swarm then returned to normal, and held out his hand, out of Pinkie’s chest comes a tiny pink heart shaped object resembling energy. Swarm then closed his eyes, the heart was absorbed into his hand, causing him to glow pink for the briefest of moments. He then licked his lips, as if he just ate a slice of delicious cake.

“Ooooooooh! Neat! Uhm… Have I been keeping you fed?” Pinkie asked, curiously.

Swarm blushed, and nodded bashfully. Pinkie looked thoughtful, then jumped into the air joyfully.

“I’ll be right back, Swarmie-warmie!” she declared, running off to the attic. She looked around until she found the very oldest of their toys, the ones they had used to learn how to speak, and came back. “Here! These will help you learn some words!”

Swarm looked at all the childish joys with utter confusion. He had never seen such things in his lifetime, let alone knew how to use them…. Pinkie sat right down with him, determined to teach him how everything worked. She started with the simplest one that taught him word sounds, and how to make them and put them together, then worked up to the more complex toys. Even though she could be incredibly random Pinkie could also be incredibly patient.

In a few hours, Swarm was able to say basic words and sentences. It helped if Pinkie said it too, he was good at imitation after all. He gulped, and looked at Pinkie, “I...Swarm...you...Pinkie…” He said slowly.

“Yup yup!” Pinkie said, clapping her hands happily at his progress. “You’ll get all this eventually.”

“I’m going to teach you how to read, too, and write. Too bad you couldn’t just… absorb all this stuff. It’d probably go a lot quicker,” Pinkie observed thoughtfully.

“Can…” Swarm said suddenly, then he blushed brightly again. “But...requires...phy...si..cal...contact…”

“Really? But what kind of physical contact? I’ve hugged you, and held your hands, and all that…” Pinkie asked, her bright blue eyes curious.

Swarm didn’t say anything, just blushed in total embarrassment...and pointed to his drawing of the two stick figures kissing.

“Oooooooh… Well why didn’t cha just say ya wanted a kissu, Swarmy-warmy?” Pinkie giggled. She turned to him giving him a smile with half-lidded eyes, then cupped his face in her hands before gently pressing her lips to his.

Swarm blushed even brighter at this, and felt the urge to just run away, but he soon felt love pour into him. He slowly began to kiss back, absorbing everything Pinkie Pie. He learned so much from this simple kiss...he slowly began subconsciously to transform into Pinkie Pie…

Swarm Pinkie giggled. “Ya told me to do you silly,” He/she said in a perfect imitation of Pinkie’s voice.

Pinkie giggled too grinning at her doppelganger. “Yup yup! I sure did! Though you might wanna change back before my parents and sisters totally freak.”

Slowly, Swarm Pinkie turned back into regular Swarm. He looked at her, took a deep breath, and said with full confidence and tone. “Pinkie Pie?”

“It worked...IT WORKED!” He cheered. “I knew the theory behind it but I didn’t think it was possible! I can talk! I can think for myself! I have ideas! Hopes! Dreams! Thank you so much Pinkie!” He cheerfully hugged Pinkie Pie. Pinkie squeed hugging him back, a huge smile on her face.

“Yeee! Swarmie can talk!” Pinkie cheered. “And I reeeeeealy liked kissing you, so everything worked out great!”

“I never felt anything like that…” Swarm said, going back to sitting down. “The love you gave me...was so pure and sweet...it was amazing, Pinkie…”

“Really? Wow, thanks! I’m glad you really liiiiiked it!” Pinkie replied giggling, a blush evident on her cheeks.

“I’ve only heard stories and rumors about that kind of love. But I never thought I as a lowly drone would ever experience it for myself…” He said with a happy smile.

“A… drone?” Pinkie asked sounding confused. “Oh! You can tell me about you, now!”

“I’m... something called a Changeling,” He explained. “Like I just showed you, we are creatures that can turn into other beings and absorb love for sustenance. I can turn into anybody I want, even different genders.”

“Wow, that’s neato. So you can disguise yourself to blend in? This way you can eat, and not have people freak out?” Pinkie asked.

“Yes, we used to live among a populace of creatures back in our world, I think they were called Ponies or something but it was before I was born.” Swarm explained.

“Oh! Oh! I was a pony, once! Then I was reincarnated here as a human!” Pinkie said gleefully, remembering the story that Celestia told her about the other world.

“Reincarnation…? I think I remember our Queen talking about something like that. Anyways, our hive was trapped by some great disaster deep underground. We spent months trying to escape but we couldn’t no matter how much we dug. We ended up nearly starving ourselves trying to feed on what little love remained. Until this weird portal showed up out of nowhere,” Swarm explained.

“And that’s how we met! Oh… Uh sorry about the cannonball, by the way,” Pinkie apologised.

“It’s alright, I was trying to scare you off,” Swarm apologised back. “Now my only problem is I have no way home, no way to contact my hive or my queen. They have no idea how much love is in this world. We could feed hives of changelings for generations on one couple’s love alone.”

“Wow… So your buggy people would kind of… be living among us, and just… absorbing people’s extra love?” Pinkie asked. “I wish I knew how to get you home, but the portals open up at random, and let bad monsters through.”

“You’ve already done me so much kindness Pinkie, let me worry about finding a way home. Or at least telling my hive it’s okay to come out to this world,” Swarm said, blushing a little.

“I hope your queenie’s like you, Swarmie. You’re a sweetie,” Pinkie said beaming.

“I.. she’s far above my station as a drone,” Swarm said, blushing at Pinkie’s flattery. “And besides, I’ve already been a burden on you enough as is. I wouldn’t argue if you want me to find my own place.”

“But I wouldn’t want you to be all alone in a strange world. Your family’s far away, and so far I’m your only friend… I imagine the Cakes wouldn’t mind letting you live with them in their spare room, if you worked for them, and if you absorbed aaaaaaaalll my memories, I betcha you’re a peachy keen baker!” Pinkie said with a grin. “You’d have a job, and a place. But you’d still need ta go to school, soooo… We’ll get you set up with the Cakes, then registered at Canterlot High tomorrow!”

Pinkie reached out and took his hand, looking into his eyes. “You… could say you’ll go with me to the Fall Formal…”

“If you say so Pinkie..and again...thank you so much…” Swarm said, gazing into her bright blue eyes.

“You’re welcome, Swarmie. I couldn’t, you know, just leave you all alone. You’d be all sad and lonely and that’s never a good feeling,” Pinkie replied sincerely. “Let’s stay besties forever.”

Equestria Guardians

by Jacoboby1

Chapter 9 "First Loves and Jam Sessions"